Pierre Roy (French 1880-1950)
Pierre Roy was a French painter, illustrator and designer. One of the original surrealists and a relative of the famous French writer Jules Vernes, Roy may be considered an immediate father of magic realism or superrealism. Unusual and "mystère onirique" are the keys to his work which represents, in meticulous detail, recognizable scenes and objects which are taken out of natural context, distorted and combined in fantastic ways as they might be in dreams.
